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Preserving the American Dream

Posted by Chris Farrell on Friday, October 19, 2007

What should be done to protect the American Dream? That's the question being asked in an American Public Media initiative. You can share your thoughts thoughts on health care, immigration, taxes and other issues at http://marketplace.publicradio.org/americandream/ You can click on any number of ideas to see what others are thinking about.

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Jessica Sundheim:

Who killed the dream and how can we preserve it? Quick! Grab the salt, a dehydrator, a freezer, or perhaps more appropriately historians. Was it the government with social security and the retirement of the boomers? Maybe, Walmart with coorperate greed and uneducated over-consuming? Perhaps Dick with The War and lenghty deployments? Many of us in the middle class have a clue: greedy people are to blame. What should we do? What CAN we do? The American dream with good jobs, paid vacation, pension & health care is gone,"Flat"lined. I console myself with the thought that I(one 28 year old mom of four) am living the Mexican dream, the Iraqi dream, and the military wife's dream. Count your blessings.

Posted by Jessica Sundheim | October 20, 2007 2:36 PM

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